Mark Tribe is an artist whose work explores the intersection of media technology and politics. His photographs, installations, videos, and performances are exhibited widely, including recent solo projects at Momenta Art in New York, the San Diego Museum of Art, G-MK in Zagreb, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Tribe is the author of two books, The Port Huron Project: Reenactments of New Left Protest Speeches (Charta, 2010) and New Media Art (Taschen, 2006), and numerous articles. He is Chair of the MFA Fine Arts Department at School of Visual Arts in New York City. In 1996, Tribe founded Rhizome, an organization that supports the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology.

This event will be begin with a lecture at 4pm followed by a video/performance at 5pm.Video documenting a similar performance:

Lecture abstract:In 1968, protesters outside the Democratic National Convention inChicago chanted "The whole world is watching," and shortly thereaftertheir images appeared on the evening news. These days, protesters bringtheir own cameras and post their clips on YouTube.How have media technologies and practices changed the roles of publicspace, performance, and the human body in politics? How have new formsof mediation and distribution altered the ways in which history isproduced and experienced? In this afternoon's performative lecture,artist Mark Tribe will discuss recent work and current projects,including the Dystopia Files, an archive of video clips depictingpublic interactions between police and protesters in North Americasince 1999.